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Diogenes

Dogenes was born around 413 B.C in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea. He was once caught in counterfeiting the currency with his father and was banished from the city. So, he went to Athens, where he sought Antisthenes, the founder of cynicism, as his mentor....

Drawing

Drawing: The words draw us in. In some sense the phenomenologist is like an artist and an author. Just as a painter draws the world so the phenomenologist tries to use words to evoke some aspect of human existence in a linguistic image. Perhaps it is for this reason...

Eidetic Reduction

The eidetic reduction: eidos Method: Bracket all incidental meaning and ask: what are some of the possible invariate aspects of this experience? The research process involves reflective inquiry into “concealed” meaning while reconciling universality and particularity...

Embodied Knowledge

Embodied Knowledge: We discover what we know in our embodied being. There has been increased attention given to the phenomenon of embodiment in human action. From a phenomenological point of view it can even be argued that the whole body itself is pathic. Thus “the...

Empirical Methods

The main purpose of the empirical (and exegetical) methods is to explore examples and varieties of lived experiences, especially in the form of anecdotes, narratives, stories and other lived experience accounts. The lifeworld, the world of lived experience, is both...